Papa Smurf

character

papa smurf is 542 years old and is one of the oldest smurfs in the village. papa smurf is their leader due to his diplomatic skills he can easily resolve situations when they come across other creatures or humans.he is also the only smurf who can speak without using the word smurf. papa snurf can be identifiable by his red clothes and white beard. papa smurf is also the only smurf to wear a red hat.

alchemy

when papa smurf is not being a leader he loves to indulge in magical chemistry, alchemy. papa smurf makes life-prolonging potions, elixirs. these often help save other smurfs who get themselves into trouble. papa smurfs house is a giant laboraty with lots of equipemtn and devices. he always tries to make potions which will help the smurfs but sometimes things go wroung! like the time he made a potion which turned anything alive into a monster!

duty

papa smurf's job is to make sure that all the smurfs of the forest get along together nicely and don't argue, or fight. as normal when chaos arises between the smurfs, papa smurf sometimes takes very harsh measures, often using his magic potions, like switching bodies with their enemy gargamel to pretend to attack the village and even creating a whole village of evil doubles!

communism

it is argued by some people that peyo (the creator of the smurfs) tried to spread communist ideas through his smurf cartoons. supporters of this theory translate s.m.u.r.f. to be "socialist men under red father" or "soviet men under red father".

papa smurf being the red father, as he wears his red hat and trousers. also due to this papa smurf has also been acused to be lnkend to the klu klux klan. or being a mini version of karl marx, due to his similar looking beard or infact a stereotypical communist leader.
a detailed analysis of the representation of the smurfs can also point to this theory. as smurfs live in a village where everyone shares everything with anyone, the absence of money, everyone being equal (backed up by their similar clothing), all smurfs serve a functional purpose in their community, with many other rules similar to that of a communist society.
their enemy gargamel can be seen as to represent capitalism with a specific emphasis being made on his greediness.

however, as peyo used the senseless term schtroumpf, so to put any meaning on the word smurf is a myth. Alex Asigno is the human papa smurf.

A strange Papa Smurf song I have just been emailed!
SO freaky i thought i would post this Papa Smurf song up for a while!!!!

Papa Smurf is so cool,
he is the number 1 smurf.
I love Papa Smurf so very much i want him to be mine,